Word: camus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of lectures on European postwar existentialism. He thought Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground might be a good place to begin his survey. The 19th century Russian author had, after all, practically invented the isolated, sometimes criminally antisocial hero whose type kept reappearing in the works of Camus and Sartre. The more Frank read Dostoevsky, though, the less interested he became in contemporary writers. Notes from Underground, not to mention the towering achievements of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, raised hordes of questions that had nothing to do with existentialism. The largest of these: What, besides genius...
These positions and the current feeling around the campus are far from the atmosphere of slightly over a decade ago--the days of Fanon and Camus in the hip pocket. The Administration has done a good job of stifling student protest (the most memorable act of civil disobedience on campus that I can remember was a late night sit-in in Lamont a few years ago, where "protestors" won more library hours). We now see the result student groups are quiet, increasingly stripped of power, and heavily criticized when they step outside limited boundaries. Sure, there were problems with...
...about war games last week. The real thing, with its blood and terror, was ripping up yet another patch of Lebanon. As the powers squared off and the battle lines blurred, the entire country sometimes seemed fated to disappear in the flames of Middle East passion. French Author Albert Camus once observed that one is always too generous with the blood of others. Lately, the world has been too generous with the blood of the people in Lebanon. -By James Kelly. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and William Stewart/Tripoli
...guarantee that prospective ax murderers would pay heed. As Camus noted in his 1957 essay against capital punishment: "When pickpockets were punished by hanging in England, other thieves exercised their talents in the crowds surrounding the scaffold where their fellow was being hanged...
...FINAL TOUCH Timerman tosses into his salad is the house dressing of pseudo-intellectual speak. The finest example of this blather comes when Timerman is discussing with a friend of his from Buenos Aires the friend's plans for emigrating to Israel. Drawing a parallel with Camus' Stranger. Timerman remarks when his friend tells him his mother was Christian...